Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-08
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tors at Los Angeles, Cal.
1t is curious scientific fact that all
the elements of the poison found in a
rattlesnake are inherent in the COM
mon Irish potato.
A Pennsylvania dog has legacy of
$1,000, the interest being used for his
support. After his death the fund
goes to a church.
A printer UP in Canada is said to be
103 years old. He has made so many
typographical errors during his career
that he is afraid to die.
A family at Bayside, L. l., has had
a narrow escape from general extinc-
ton, though the substitution by the
cook of oXalic acid for vinegar.
In Germany householders are al
lowed to treat trespassing cats and
dogs as beasts of prey; that is, they
can kill them in any way they choose.
An Albany barber says there's not
half the danger in being shaved from
the public cups in barber shop as
being brushed with the public hair
brush.
A faith doctor near Richmond, Mo-,
has secured large number of pa
tients, whom he treats by hanging
mink skins about their necks and tell
ing them to feel sure that he viii cure
them.
There is beautiful uncertainty
about the value of copper cents in
Mexico. In Vera Cruz, for instance,
it takes 104 of them to make 81, while
in chihuahua ninety-fve will pass
for 81.
Syracuse boasts of having the big
gest dog in the world. He weighs 203
pounds and measures 6 feet and 3
inches from nose to tail. He is nearly
two years old and was born in En-
gland.
The Berlin police photograph crimi-
mails in profile so as to show the left
ear. The theory is that the features of
the face change, but the ear does not,
and also that no two persons have
identical ears.
A dog was about to attack monkey
belonging to an organ grinder. As
the dog rushed on the monkey Lifted
his hat and gracefully saluted, when
the dogs tail and head dropped and
he sneaked away.
Ionic Lafon of New Orleans is the
only millionaire of African lineage in
this country. The Georgia negro
woman, to whom David Dickson left
his money, is therefore not the richest
colored person.
John P. Campbell United States
consul at Tamatave, Madagascar, has
been well received by the queen of
that country. In fact, her majesty
has gone SO far as to send him a pre-
sent of bullock, six chickens, and
two geese.
The United States pays every year
for cigars and cigarettes $1S6, 800, 900
and $20,0O0,000 for tobacco smoked in
pipes. To this it adds the cost of
chewing tobacco, $50, 900, 900, bringing
the entire tobacco bill for the year up
to 1926, 100000.
The famous old Mr.. Parr of London
died at 155 from surfeit of eating
Coming down to the present there are
limit. Chevreul, the famous French
chemist, celebrated the Tooth ami
versary of his birth Il short time ago.
Felix Pyat is candidate for the
French Senate upon rather radical
platform. Il shall enter the Senate"
he writes, ''as a cartridge of dynamite, !
to blow up if [ can that obstruction
to the Republic, and reduce the Lux
embourg to the level of the Tuileries."
Miss Howard st. Clair, handsome
California book agent, has brought
suit for 100000 against Walter Glib
son, eX-Premier of the Hawaiian King
dom, for alleged trifiing with her
tender affections. Mr.. Gibson is oveS
70 years of age, but hale and vigorous.
When the prince of Wales break
fasts she likes the solid toasted muffin,
the pink-and-white slices of home
cured ham, the generous section Of
Melton Mowbray pork pie, grilled
chops tianked with kidneys broiled on
a silver fork, plenty of good thick
cream, and butter"
Alb \, in Erie county, Pa, has a
curiosity in shape of a clock which
stands seven feet high, operated by
chains and great weights, the dial
bearing old Roman figures, with the
entire works made of lockwood and
bearings of pure ivory. 1t is a per
feet time-keeper and upward of 100
years old.
The people of this country spend
over 100000 for singing
birds. All the warbling in Italian and
German from behind the footlights
does not equal in cost, therefore, the
twittering of the feathered pets in
their gilded cages. Nearly half a
million birds are imported into this
country every year.
A St. Paul dog was very fond of the
house cat. One evening he was seen
coming from the shadow of neigh
boris fence with a hen in his mouth.
After hiding it he went for the cat,
which he seized by the neck and
dragged to the fence. He tore the
chicken into pieces and helped the cat
to the choicest scraps.
Nearly all the black-headed pins in
the market are made from needles
which are broken in the factories in
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